[anonylizard]

Why not?

Zuckerburg has already realized that local social networks will be utterly replaced by AI chatbots, which are superior in like 99% of cases.

It doesn't matter if others find "Facebook" icky, because the people who would find it icky, don't use facebook anyways. The critical factor is getting a new group of users onboard, to form a sustainable core of users.

[riffraff]

> local social networks will be utterly replaced by AI chatbots, which are superior in like 99% of cases.

how do you use social networks?

I cannot imagine how my usage of social networks would be replaced by chatbots.

Although.. cripes, does nobody remember Google People?[0]

[0] https://qntm.org/person

[swiftcoder]

I can see it. Lots of lonely people use social media as a means of experiencing connection, and being gaslit by a pornbot is not strictly worse than being gaslit by one of the pretty ladies trying to get you to invest your life savings on bitcoin…